Tag: eu

I’m desperately sad to see my long term Danish friend Lene Kruhoffer reluctantly abandon her adopted Scotland after 33 years. Essentially Lene has been forced out of her defacto home by the uncertain future of the Brexit shambles . I have known Lene for about half of that time and attended Napier University in Edinburgh…

By Dr Mark McNaught In retrospect, the ‘Great’ Repeal Bill (GRB) for Scots may turn out to be historically analogous to the 2010 Ruling of the Spanish Constitutional Tribunal over the Catalan Statute of Autonomy. Both of these acts constitute a revocation of many hard-won devolved powers. Both shall have dissolved the brittle consensus over…

MP’s have once again followed parliamentary tradition, ignored available efficiencies of the digital age and traipsed through the Aye and No division lobbies. This time, the regressive outcome is the European Union Bill (Brexit Bill) passing it’s first HoC debating stage. 498 of our parliamentary representatives voted for the UK to become an isolationist backwater and…

Things we know from the Tory conference. Forget about the single market, migration controls will be severe, the economic consequences will be devastating and you should prepare to suffer. Theresa May and Ruth Davidson have less integrity than a floppy disk on top of a magnet. Ruth clearly takes her orders from London. They both…

The democratically elected (at least by the rUK) Tory government has decided not to be accountable to those very people who placed them into power and at the same time are backtracking on repeated promises by excluding the SNP from Brexit negotiations and plan to keep the detail from Parliament. The backtracking PM said at…

In a week where Tesco decided to boycott their Scottish customers by ditching our flag and Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t find a seat on a train, some real politics actually happened today. Following Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement she would explore all options to protect Scotland’s place in the EU, she has all but concluded that will mean a…

Confidence trickster Theresa May is attempting to lure Nicola Sturgeon into blocking a second referendum on independence. Given the historically contemptuous attitude by unionist parties towards Scotland, it will shock very few that Theresa May is laying a devious political trap for Scotland’s First Minister by offering to include her in all aspects of the…

Episode 4 of our podcast is now available http://tvL.ink/podcasts/004.mp3 In this week’s episode we feature highlights from: Scotland’s Climate March and Rally RISE: system change – not climate change Gearóid Ó Colmáin Scotland in Europe IndyLive social You can click on the livestream titles above to view the livestreams in full. Subscribe on other podcast…

TTIP AND TPP THE FUTURE THAT WE ALL DON’T WANT… I AM AN ANTI TTIP CAMPAIGNER, I HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING AGAINST IT FOR OVER A YEAR NOW. I AM NOT A MEMBER OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY I AM JUST A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNED ENOUGH TO INFORM THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT TTIP.…

The European Commission didn’t authorise any official answer regarding a hypothetical Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Catalunya. It is not for the Commission to express a position on questions of internal organisation related to the constitutional arrangements of a particular Member State. This statement was the one agreed by President Juncker” stated EC spokeswoman Natasha…